The L-16 Grasshopper is the militarized version of the Aeronca Champ and was used extensively in the Korean and Vietnam wars as an observation/liaison aircraft. Trevor Edie is a qualified fight ...

and also the art?of flying in the cockpit of a Champ. There’s something very special about flying classic rag ‘n’ tube taildraggers, something that is difficult to explain and hard to resist. Whoever ...

a 100hp (thank God for that) descendant of that pre-war aircraft I flew many years ago. Not quite the same old Champ… There cannot be many readers who are unfamiliar with the original Aeronca Champ, ...

The cockpit had a plywood seat ... more than 10,000 of the Flying Bathtub’s most famous successor, the Aeronca Champion.

D. Miller / Wikimedia The Aeronca Champion has risen up the list from fourth place in 2023 to its current place as the second-cheapest certified plane in 2025. While many vintage aircraft have seen ...

A small plane crash in Tehama County on Tuesday afternoon claimed the life of its pilot and left a passenger seriously injured. On Wednesday, the FAA confirmed that the aircraft was a single-engine ...

Manatee County deputies responded to reports of a downed aircraft at 14108 U.S. 41 in Palmetto just before 10 a.m. Witnesses said that a vintage single-engine Aeronca Champ experienced a problem ...

Manatee County deputies responded to reports of a downed aircraft at 14108 U.S. 41 in Palmetto just before 10 a.m. Witnesses said that a vintage single-engine Aeronca Champ experienced a problem ...

Abstract: This work present the construction and instrumentation of a small balsa plane with the aim of using it as a test bed for the development of AHRS and control algorithms. This project was ...

Ultralight aircraft do, however ... since 1955 and still owns the plane he took his first flight in, a 1946 Aeronca Champ. He also owns a 1965 ERCO Ercoupe named "Buttercup." ...